Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [prep] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | That great insight — lost or rejected throughout 2000 years of western history , save for its occasional stirring in the minds of rare individuals uncrippled by centuries of projected dogma — became the touchstone of eastern philosophy . |
| 2 | The two-year course was introduced in 1844 and endured for 32 years . |
| 3 | He had not worked and fought for eight years in order to give Aquitaine away to someone else . |
| 4 | To assess the value of gastroscopic cancer surveillance of patients with pernicious anaemia , 56 patients were re-endoscoped and biopsied after three years . |
| 5 | The nuns were charged with ‘ splittist activity ’ and condemned to three years ' labour for being ‘ extremely arrogant ’ . |
| 6 | After 1967 Jordan hoped that it could recover the West Bank , and believed for some years that this would be possible . |
| 7 | The ideal hayfield might be grazed and mowed in alternate years , well drained , not sour ( of neutral pH ) , carrying a well-balanced mixture of grasses , clovers , and deep-rooting herbs . |
| 8 | I was elected for two years running onto the NUS Lesbian and Gay Committee and served for one year on the London Students ' Organization executive committee . |
| 9 | The Mayor of Bedford for the time being was always to be an additional director and at the time of the meeting the Mayor was John Wing , who had been sworn in on 29th September 1793 , and served for one year , after which he remained as one of the aldermen . |
| 10 | They are almost all rich old men , since most are appointed when in their fifties and do n't retire until they reach seventy-five : Lord Leverhulme was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Cheshire in 1949 and served for forty years . |
| 11 | He was instituted there on 3 May 1631 and served for several years . |
| 12 | In 1846 he was articled to his father and served for seven years in the latter 's chambers in Gray 's Inn , also attending from 1847 to 1849 the evening lectures on architecture initiated at University College , Gower Street , by T. L. Donaldson [ q.v. ] in 1842 . |
| 13 | Though invalided out of the infantry in 1915 with tuberculosis , Pearson volunteered the following year for the Army Service Corps , and was commissioned and served for three years in Mesopotamia and Persia . |
| 14 | If proceedings can be issued and served within three years and four months , you have a strong argument that the defendants are in no worse a position than the rules allow . |
| 15 | Kathryn Sykes has run a pottery , and worked for many years as a window dresser and she has used her sense of style and colour to decorate each room individually . |
| 16 | When he came out he worked for some years at a stud-farm at Henley ( Suffolk ) ; then he went back to smithing and worked for many years at Needham Market , a large village near Ipswich : |
| 17 | Inspired by the coral coasts of Papua New Guinea ( where Liz lived and worked for nine years ) , this aquarium on silk is made by using a rubber-based glue called gutta in the same way that wax is used in the batik process . |
| 18 | Yasu , his grandson , succeeded in 1680 and reigned for twenty years , the last effective Emperor at Gondar . |
| 19 | Actress dies : Actress Alexis Smith , who played opposite Clark Gable and Errol Flynn , and appeared for six years in TV soap Dallas , has died in Los Angeles , aged 72 . |
| 20 | When he retired from practice , probably in 1828 , he and others produced a veterinary periodical called the Farrier and Naturalist , which was devoted to attacks on Professor Coleman , and ran for three years . |
| 21 | His canonry was not of Oxford but of Kobe , of the Anglican Church in Japan , but it was the Oxford Diocesan Clergy Cricket side which he captained and ran for 25 years . |
| 22 | Both are candidates for the Olympic team and Bridge , though the youngest man in the race , rowed in last year 's crew and competed at last year 's world championships in a coxed pair steered by Probert . |
| 23 | In 1811 he won the competition for a complex of buildings in Plymouth consisting of a hotel , assembly rooms , and theatre ; and , his success with this important commission establishing his local reputation , he moved to Plymouth and remained for twenty-five years the leading architect of the neighbourhood . |
| 24 | In the absence of the big idea , one good phrase would be a help , something to focus the uncertain and suggestible mood of the country and put its finger on what it is that is missing and wanted after 10 years of Mrs Thatcher . |
| 25 | Mr Timms resigned but Mr Cooke denied he had been dishonest and stayed for two years until he was fired in August last year . |
| 26 | We settled in Canada as a family , my mum , dad , sister , brother , grandad , nan , and I. There we bought a motel near the sea and stayed for nine years . |
| 27 | Compositors with a wage increase of 40 per cent did less well , while typefounders , oppressed by a tightly knit group of employers , were unable to secure a money increase and stayed for seventy years on 18s ( 90p ) a week , experiencing an evident decline in living standards not only in 1795 and 1800 – 1 , but over the last ten years of the wars . |
| 28 | A straw poll by The Bookseller last week revealed that Octopus , Bloomsbury and Macmillan were among publishers who closed for Christmas but reopened before New Year , and that publishers taking a 10 day break — closing on Christmas Eve and reopening on 4th January — included HarperCollins , Transworld , OUP , CUP , Orion and Dorling Kindersley . |
| 29 | The Thwaites family farmed West Hury , which had a previous existence as the Hare and Hounds public house , but left after ten years to move to High Birk Hatt in 1920 . |
| 30 | ( The Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic had become a member on April 7 , 1948 , but had for many years maintained only token participation in the organization . ) |